Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Vicerrectora Acadmica y de Investigacin

Activity 6 Speaking assignment-Synchronous meeting

1. General description of the course

Faculty or Academic Vicerrectora de Relaciones Internacionales

Unit
Academic Level Professional, specialization, master
Academic Field Common basic interdisciplinary training
Course name English A2
Course code 900002
Course type Methodological Can be re- Yes No
opened
Number of credits 3

2. Description of the activity

Physical Remote
Simulator
laboratory laboratory
Type of
Specialized Professional
practice Field works
software experiences
Other Which: Skype
Type of activity: Individual Collaborative Number of weeks 5
Moment of
Initial Intermediate Final
evaluation:
Score of the activity (if Delivering environment: Collaborative
70
applicable): Learning
Starting date: October 9 , 2017
th Closing date: November 25th, 2017
Topics addressed in the practical component:
Present simple
Present progressive
There is are
Prepositions of place
Adverbs of frequency

Activities to carry out:

 PHASE 1: VIDEO RECORDING MY LIFE

1. Each student has to make a video, in which he should introduce himself with
all the information such as: FULL NAME, AGE, PROFESSION, STUDIES, WORK,
ETC. The student should be recorded showing parts of his/her real life routine,
his/her real job and his/her real house. The video should not be more than
2:00 minutes long. Look at the video to copy the format
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTZfnO743Ig
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGeasFdAlGs

2. Share the recording or the link of the video in the forum.

3. Comment one video from other person in the forum

PHASE 2: SKYPE INTERVIEW

1. Your tutor will send you a link containing a time table for you to register in the
established days and hours.
2. Register on the schedule your ID number, full name, group number, email and
Skype username.
3. Login to the virtual tool at least 10 minutes before the interview.
4. Remember to have from 10 to 15 minutes and guarantee the headset, microphone
and camera work fine to carry out the interview.

The interview has two major parts:

Self-introduction
Make sure you are prepared to answer one of the following questions:

HOW ARE YOU?

WHAT IS YOUR FULL NAME?
WHAT IS YOUR LAST NAME?
WHAT IS YOUR FIRST NAME?
HOW OLD ARE YOU?
HOW OLD IS YOUR FATHER/MOTHER/SISTER/BROTHER?
DO YOU HAVE CHILDREN?
HOW MANY CHILDREN DO YOU HAVE?
ARE YOU MARRIED?
ARE YOU SINGLE?
WHAT IS YOUR MARITAL STATUS?
WHAT DO YOU DO FOR A LIVING?
WHAT IS YOUR PROFESSION?
WHAT DO YOU DO IN YOUR FREE TIME?
DO YOU LIKE SPORTS?
DO YOU LIKE TO READ/TO EXERCISE/TO JOG/ TO PLAY CHESS?
WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE FOOD?
WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE MUSIC?
DO YOU LIKE TO DANCE?
WHERE ARE YU FROM?
WHERE WERE YOU BORN?
WHERE DO YOU LIVE?
WHO DO YOU LIVE WITH?
DO YOU HAVE PETS?
WHAT ARE YOU STUDYING?

A conversation about one of the following topics:

Talk about your daily routine
Talk about your house
Talk about your family
Describe the following picture
Working
Collaborative Learning
environment:
Products to
deliver by the Video recording
student:
Type of No product must be
Individual Collaborative
product: delivered
Individual:
Upload the video in YouTube, Vimeo, Dropbox, Onedrive etc.
4. Evaluation rubric

Evaluation rubric
Activity type: Individual Collaborative
Moment of
Initial Intermediate Final
evaluation
Items to Levels of performance of individual activity
Score
evaluate Lowest score Medium score Highest score
The student
The student records records the video
the video but it does describing his/her
not fully correspond to life and covers all
There is no the parts allocated in aspects allocated in
Video
evidence of video the guide. He/she the guide. The
recording
recording and may(not) have video is clear and
and forum 35
forum participated in the understandable.
participatio
participation forum. The video is Also, he/she
n
not fully participates in the
understandable or has forum giving
some inaudible parts feedback to one of
the forum mates
(up to 0 points) (up to18 points) (up to 35 points)
The student has a The student can The student can fully
great deal of communicate in a understand and
problems
simple fashion, using communicate all
communicating
repetitive structures his/her ideas un
his/her ideas in
and fair vocabulary. English about
English. Also,
He/she understands himself. He/she can
he/she does not
interact with
Skype understand simple some commands and
minimum or /no
Interview: commands and questions and 15
error in an English
Interaction questions. He/she eventually needs some Speaking
needs first repetition. There are environments. The
language to
some mistakes in the pronunciation is
communicate or
pronunciation, but it fluent, with good
confirm the
doesnt affect the intonation and
information during
understanding of the appropriate intervals
the interview. The
between sentences.
student makes message.
 many
pronunciation
mistakes and the
message is not
clear.
(up to 0 points) (up to 7 points) (up to 15 points)
The student does There is a limited
not construct number of sentences The student can
complete The student construct sentences
sentences or sometimes constructs using a wide range
uses only a complete sentence of grammatical
isolated words. but the structure is structures. He/she
Skype He/she does not too repetitive and the is able con link
Interview: use structures range of vocabulary is them together
Structure studied in the limited. He using connectors. 15
and course. The sometimes combines The student uses a
vocabulary student uses a Spanish and English vocabulary
vocabulary in an to construct suggested in the
incorrect way, sentences. The used units. The message
beside there is vocabulary is scarce is clear and
no cohesion in and not always understandable.
the speech. correct.
(up to 0 points) (up to 5 points) (up to 20 points)
The student
presents the
The students follow
interview but
Skype the plan of the
he/she changes
Interview: interview. He/she
schedules, shows
Preparation, programs the
up late, in a 5
Responsibili interview one time
different
ty and and shows on time
schedule or
punctuality and ready
alters the order
of the interview
(up to 0 points) (up to 2 points) (up to 10 points)
Final score 70